Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romance of the Rose | 1993 | Claire Delacroix | Buy |
| 2 | La sposa bambina | 1994 | Claire Delacroix | N/A |
| 3 | The Sorceress | 1994 | Claire Delacroix | Buy |
| 4 | Roarke’s Folly | 1994 | Claire Delacroix | Buy |
The Rose Trilogy is the beginning of Claire Delacroix’s career, three books published in 1993 and 1994 that established her in the medieval romance space before she began developing the more elaborate series structures of her later work.
Romance of the Rose (1993) came first, introducing her approach to the medieval world — detailed in its period atmosphere, character-driven in its romantic plotting, attentive to the social constraints that shaped women’s lives in the Norman era. Roarke’s Folly and The Sorceress followed in 1994 to complete the trilogy.
As her first series, the Rose Trilogy is a natural point of entry for readers interested in the full arc of Delacroix’s career, showing where her voice started before more than three decades of development.